As someone who has been blogging for 10 years, I find most articles designed to encourage people to start blogging infuriating. They paint blogging as this wonderful activity that will free you from your 9 to 5 job and solve all your problems. They show you pictures of happy bloggers working on the beach. What bothers me is that while blogging is wonderful, it has pros and cons like any other job.| Grow With Less
There is a lot of bad advice when it comes to finding a blog niche. “Write about your passion.” “Choose the most profitable niche.” “Don’t choose a crowded niche.” This advice is well-intentioned but ignores key psychological principles and causes many bloggers to give up blogging after a few months. That’s a shame because finding what you want to blog about is simply finding the intersection between what people want and what you want.| Grow With Less